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The effect of pauses in dysarthric speech recognition study on Thai cerebral palsy children

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i-CREATe '07: Proceedings of the 1st international convention on Rehabilitation engineering & assistive technology: in conjunction with 1st Tan Tock Seng Hospital Neurorehabilitation Meeting

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Dysarthric speech recognition (DSR) is continuously developed to improve the quality of life of people with speech impairment. This study aimed to investigate the effect of pauses in DSR. Speech corpus consists of 40 words including two subsets, (i) 20 bisyllabic words with specific design in order to contain all types of final consonant-initial consonant junction in Thai language and (ii) 20 monosyllabic words, which have some phoneme similar to that of the previous subset. Four cerebral palsy children with dysarthria and two normal children were participated. DSR was trained by using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) in 3 approaches: phoneme-based (PSR), word-based (WSR), and pause reducing word-based (PRWSR). For the third approach, the pauses in words were automatically detected and reduced. The accuracy for PRWSR was compared with that of WSR by varying the duration of remaining pauses in PRWSR. Speech samples from the normal children were also recognized for comparing the accuracy. The results showed that PSR provided the highest recognition rate. The recognition rates of WSR and PRWSR are not significantly different but PRWSR grants a bit higher recognition rate than WSR. Comparing the remaining pause duration, 100 ms remaining pause duration is better than any other duration.

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Kim DJeong JKang DAhn THong YIm YKim JKim MJang D(2025)Usefulness of Automatic Speech Recognition Assessment of Children With Speech Sound Disorders: Validation StudyJournal of Medical Internet Research10.2196/6052027(e60520)Online publication date: 14-Jan-2025
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Guerrier YNaveteur JKolski CPoirier F(2014)Communication System for Persons with Cerebral PalsyComputers Helping People with Special Needs10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_64(419-426)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08596-8_64
Guerrier YKolski CPoirier FMollard RPoirier FVanderhaegen F(2012)Comment communiquer lorsqu'on est un utilisateur infirme moteur cérébral (IMC) de type athétosique ? Étude de cas des différents moyens de communicationProceedings of the 2012 Conference on Ergonomie et Interaction homme-machine10.1145/2652574.2653443(217-220)Online publication date: 16-Oct-2012
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